HIROMI OSHIMA

Last Updated :2024/04/03

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
E-mail
oshimah.at-hiroshima-u.ac.jp (< .at- )
Self-introduction
Hiromi Oshima studies Chinese dialects, especially the Hakka dialects, the Kan dialects and the She dialects of the Chinese minority. She goes to the southern part of China to conduct language survey and studies the phonology and chronological and synchronic phonetic changes of various languages, in the southern part of China, based on the data obtained from the survey and past materials.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • M.A. in Linguistics, University of Tsukuba
  • Ph.D., Sun Yat-sen University

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Integrated Arts and Sciences
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program

In Charge of Primary Major Programs

  • Language and Culture

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Linguistics;Linguistics

Research Keywords

  • Chinese linguistics
  • Chinese Dialects
  • Phonetics
  • phonology
  • She dialects
  • Hakka dialects
  • Gan Dialects

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • The Linguistic Society of Japan
  • Phonetic Society of Japan
  • The Sinological Society of Japan
  • The Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Basic Chinese I
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Basic Chinese I
  3. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Basic Chinese II
  4. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Basic Chinese II
  5. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Basic Chinese III
  6. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Basic Chinese III
  7. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Basic Chinese IV
  8. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Basic Chinese IV
  9. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Linguistic Fieldwork
  10. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Chinese Language Teaching
  11. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Seminar on Intermediate Chinese Listening Comprehension
  12. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Seminar on Advanced Chinese Listening Comprehension
  13. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, The Structure of Language

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. On Shangsheng Tone of the Hakka Dialects, Tsukuba sinological studies, 1-18, 1992
  2. The Language Behavior of the Taiwanese - on the usage of dialects in Taiwan and how they look at their dialects, Report on Language Behavior, 2, 57-70, 1992
  3. An Essay of proto-Hakka dialects, (master's Thesis), 1992
  4. The Phonology and Vocabularies of the Hakka dialects in Ipoh, Malaysia, Tsukuba Sinological Studies, 1-51, 1993
  5. ★, The Phonological System of Nanfeng Dialect, Journal of Sun Yatsen University (Social Science Edition), 3, 124-136, 1995
  6. Dialogues in the Meixian Hakka Dialect 1, Kaipian, 94-112, 1995
  7. ★, Dental Stops which belong to Ancient Palatalized Dental Initials and Palatal Sibiants in Gan Dialects, Chuugoku Gogaku, 163-170, 1996
  8. Dialogues in the Meixian Hakka Dialect 2, Kaipian, 143-160, 1996
  9. The Criation and its result of database of the Retroflex Consonants, Papers on Chinese Dialects (3), 1-15, 1998
  10. Dialogues in the Meixian Hakka Dialects 3, Kaipian, 105-129, 1998
  11. ★, The Entering Tone of the Nanfeng Dialect, The Chinese Culture, 1-12, 1998
  12. The map of Chinese Dialects "to look for", The Maps of Chinese Dialects, 56-58, 1999
  13. The Map of Chinese Dialects "Pencil" and "The Initials of the first syllable of qianbi (penil)", The Maps of Chinese Dialects, 141-143, 1999
  14. The map of Chinese Dialects "pronunciation of "jia" - the third division of yahou intials",, The Maps of Chinese Dialects, 146-148, 1999
  15. Phonology of Hongshan Hakka Dialect, Changting, Fujian (with appendix syllabary)., 194-213, 2000
  16. The Phonology of the She-Hakka Dialect of Taiyuan, Yanshan, Jiangxi Province, Mathesis universalis, 4(1), 123-141, 2002
  17. The Function of Demonstrative Pronoun in the Yichun Dialect, Jiangxi, China, Mathesis universalis, 6(1), 65-86, 2004
  18. The Phonological System of the Lixi Dialect, in Jiangxi Province, China, Mathesis universalis, 7(1), 73-89, 2005
  19. The Syllabary of the Lixi Dialect, Wuning, Jiangxi in China, Mathesis universalis, 7(2), 57-76, 2006
  20. The Usage of She Dialects, a lot of Dialect Islands, in the souteast of China, Papers of Conference of the Endangered Dialects, 47-58, 2009
  21. ★, The Sound [l] in the Finals of the She Dialect of Dingbao Village of Fengyang She Ethnic Township, Cangnan County, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 30, 1-10, 2010
  22. ★, Shangsheng Tone Creaky Voice of the She Language in Fengping Village, Fengshun County, Cultural Heritage, 157-162, 2011
  23. The Tone Sandhi of two-syllable of Luoyuan She Dialect and its Sound Change, Papers of the 2nd Conference of the Endangered Dialects, 9-19, 2011
  24. Based on Discipline Service Case Study - an Interview with a Japanese Student about the Information Needs on the Study of the Hakka Dialects, Library Tribune, 32(2), 53-56,76, 2012
  25. The Phonological Features of the Dialect of Qiushi in Zhengping Town, Xinfeng Prefecture, Jiangxi, The Papers of the 12th Meeting of the Hakka Dialects, 15-25, 2016
  26. The Phonological Study of the She Dialects, 201606
  27. ★, Tones of the Ji'an She Dialect of Jiangxi, The Chinese Culture, 78, 28-42, 202006
  28. The issue of dialect attribution in the early Catholic literature of the Hakka dialects, Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 14(2), 222-237, 20211215

Publications such as books

  1. 2002, Study of Hakka Dialects : papers of 4th Conference of the Hakka dialects, The Tone Sandhi of the Hongshan Hakka Dialect , Changting Prefecture, Fujian Province, Jinan University Press, 2002, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 中国語, 7810791192
  2. 2003, Chuugokugo no wa: Soshuhen 1, Report on My Survery of Chinese Dialects (1-4), The Society of Teaching Chinese Proficiency, Japan, 2003, Book(general), Joint work, 日本語, 252-257
  3. 2005, Papers of the International Academic Conference of "Immigration and Hakka Culture", The Phonological Features of the Ipoh Hakka Dialect in Malaysia, Guangxi Norman University Press, 2005, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 中国語, 7563357173
  4. 2013, The Perspectives and Methods of Hakka Studies in Japan : a Hundred YearsTrajectory, The Rise and Development of the Hakka Dialects Study after World War II, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2013, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 中国語, 9787509749272
  5. 2018, Survey Study of the Hakka Dialects, The Phonological Features of the Qiushi Hakka Dialect, Zhengping Town, Xinfeng Prefecture, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 中国語, 9787306064486
  6. 2022/03/31, Festschrift in honour of Professor Ray Iwata on his retirement Vo.2, The Short Tones of the She Dialects, Design Egg, 2022, 03, Scholarly Book, Joint work, Chinese, Editorial board of Festschrift in honour of Professor Ray Iwata on his retirement, 978-4815032364, 426, 247-261
  7. 2022/09, A Multidimensional Perspective of Chinese Dialect Studies, Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America and Hakka Dialect Studies, Shanghai Educational Publishing House, 2022, 09, Scholarly Book, Joint work, Chinese, Hiromi Oshima, Chusheng Zhuang, 978-7-5720-1514-4, 455, 219-228

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. On the Yinping tone from Shangsheng Tone of the Middle Chinese of the Hakka Dialects, Hiromi Oshima, 43rd Conference of the Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 1993/10/17, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2. On the Initials of the Third Division of Zhi Initials and Zhang Initials of the Gan Dilaects, Hiromi Oshima, The Meetiing in Kanto Area, The Chinese Language Society of Japan, 1996/01/20, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Chinese Language Society of Japan, University of Tsukuba
  3. On the Entering Tone of the Gan Nanfeng Dialect, Hiromi Oshima, Conference of Phonetic Society of Japan in 1996, 1996/09/21, Without Invitation, Japanese, Phonetic Society of Japan, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  4. The Characteristcs of the Gan Dongkou Dialect in Hunan, Hiromi Oshima, The Meeting of the Historical Chinese Linguistics, 1997/06/07, Without Invitation, Chinese, Mitsuaki Endo, Aoyama Gakuin University
  5. "ki" of the 3rd personal pronoun of the Hakka Dialects, Hiromi Oshima, The Meeting of Historical Chinese Linguistics, 1999/03/26, Without Invitation, Chinese, Mitsuaki Endo, Aoyama Gakuin University
  6. The Tone Sandhi of the Hongshan Hakka Dialect of Changting , Fujian Province, Hiromi Oshima, The 4th International Conference of the Hakka Dialects, 2000/11/15, With Invitation, Chinese, Meixian, Guangdong Province
  7. On the She Languages - the Phonology of the She Dialect in Yanshan, Jiangxi, Hiromi Oshima, Project on Contact of languages and culture, 2001/03/21, With Invitation, Japanese, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  8. The Phonological Characteristics of the Ipho Hakka Dialect in Malaysia, Hiromi Oshima, International Conference of Migrantion and Hakka Culture, the 20th World Hakka Conference, 2005/10/12, With Invitation, Chinese, Social Science Academy of Sichuan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
  9. The Usage of the She Dialects -a lot of Dialect Islands, Hiromi Oshima, The 1st Conference of the Endangered Dialects, 2009/11/28, With Invitation, Chinese, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen University
  10. The -l Finals of the Dingbao She Dialect of Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, Hiromi Oshima, the 1st Meeting of graduate Students of Department of Chinese of Guangdong Province, 2010/07/10, Without Invitation, Chinese, Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen University
  11. The Languages of She Ethnic Minority and the Anthropological Discovery, Hiromi Oshima, 2010/08/24, With Invitation, Chinese, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Institute of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University
  12. The Tone Sandhi of Two-Syllable of the Luoyuan She Dialect and its Sound Change, Hiromi Oshima, The 2nd Conference of the Endangered Dialects, 2011/09/24, With Invitation, Chinese, Jishou University, Jishou University
  13. The Phonological Features of the Zhengping Hakka Dialect in Xinfeng Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, Hiromi Oshima, Chuugoku Regional Regular Meeting, The Chinese Linguistic Society of Japan, 2016/10/23, Without Invitation, Japanese, Hiroshima University
  14. The Characteristics of Japanese and Chinese from Intercultural Communication Perspective, Hiromi Oshima, 2016/12/02, With Invitation, Japanese, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  15. The Phonological Features of Qiushi Dialect, Zhengping Town, Xinfeng Prefecture, Jiangxi, Hiromi Oshima, The 12th Meeting of the Hakka Dialects, 2016/12/04, With Invitation, Chinese, Sun Yat-sen University (China)
  16. Creaky Voice in the Ji'an She Dialect of Jiangxi Province, Hiromi Oshima, The Sixth International Conference on Chinese Language Resources (CLR-6), 2019/09/23, With Invitation, Chinese, Research Center of Chinese Language Resources and Protection, Zhejiang Normal University
  17. Maryknoll and the Hakka Dialects, Hiromi Oshima, 15th Meeting of Society of Chinese Dialects, 2021/08/27, Japanese, Society of Chinese Dialects, Kindai University
  18. Analyzing the Tarama dialect, Miyako, Okinawa, by Spectrum, Hiromi Oshima, Yukiko Mihara, Mafuyu Kitahara, The 13th International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, 2021/11/13, Without Invitation, Japanese, Shanghai Branch, China Japanese Education Association, Tongji University, Shanghai
  19. The Formation Process of 'Hakka Lessons' , a textbook for Malaysian Hakka Dialect, Hiromi Oshima, The Society of Chinese Dialects, 2024/03/28, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Society of Chinese Dialects, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies

Awards

  1. 2010, The 1st Guangdong Chinese Studies Graduate Student Excellence Award, Sun Yat-sen University
  2. 2017/09/29, Female Researcher Encouragement Prize of Hiroshima University, Hiroshima University

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Key Project of Humanities and Social Science Research Base of Ministry of Education of China, A study of Endangered Dialects in South of the Five Ridges , (research collaborator), 2008, 2011
  2. National Social Science Foundation of Major Projects, Overseas Rare Chinese Literature and Southern Chinese in Ming and Qing Dynasties , (research collaborator), 2012, 2017
  3. National Social Science Foundation of Major Projects, Corpus Construction and Comprehensive Comparative Study of Hakka dialects in China and Overseas , (research collaborator), 2014, 2020
  4. Female Researcher Encouragement Prize of Hiroshima University, Hiroshima University, The Phonological Study of the She Dialects in China, 2017, 2018
  5. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists), The Descriptive Investigation of the She Dialects in China, 2018, 2023
  6. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists), A Sociolinguistic Study of Hakka Dialect in Malaysia, 2023, 2028

Social Activities

Other Social Contributions

  1. Human Beings as seen from the Perspective of integrated Science, Chinese and its dialects - The relationship between language and people, School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 2022/10/29, School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Lecturer, Lecture, General